Richard Brandon Morris (1904–1989)

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1. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

2. Eric Foner

   Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, The Story of American Freedom, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

3. C. Vann Woodward

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4. Richard Brandon Morris

   Author of Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution, The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789, The American Revolution (American History Topic Books)

5. Taylor Branch

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6. Edmund S. Morgan

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7. James M. McPherson

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8. Stanley M. Elkins

   Author of The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800, Slavery; a Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life

9. T. Harry Williams

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10. William E. Leuchtenburg

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11. Bernard Bailyn

    Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction

12. David W. Blight

    Author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

13. Margaret L. Coit

    Author of The Time-Life History of the United States: The Sweep Westward, The Growing Years, 1789-1829

14. David M. Kennedy

    Author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

15. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, The Age of Reform, The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840 (Jefferson Memorial Lectur

16. Bernard A. Weisberger

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17. David M. Potter

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18. Kenneth M. Stampp

    Author of The Peculiar Institution

19. Ernest R. May

    Author of The Time-Life History of the United States: The Progressive Era, The Time-Life History of the United States: War, Boom and Bust

20. Daniel Walker Howe

    Author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, The Political Culture of the American Whigs